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Quest Diagnostics
Nearly 12 million Quest Diagnostics patients affected by data breach

Quest Diagnostics, a US-based company that offers medical testing services, has announced that a third-party billing collections company they use has been hit by a data …

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How to write an effective data breach notification?

Data breach notifications sent by companies to affected customers are often unclear and not very helpful, University of Michigan researchers have found. The problem(s) The …

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The largest breaches over the past three years have caused massive and irreparable damage

Publicly traded companies suffering the worst data breaches averaged a 7.5 percent decrease in stock price, a Bitglass report reveals. Bitglass researched the three largest …

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A deeper look: How the 281 data breaches in Q1 2019 will impact companies

High-profile data breaches show no sign of slowing down. In the first quarter of 2019, there were 281 reported data breaches, exposing more than 4.53 billion records. …

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C-level executives increasingly and proactively targeted by social breaches

C-level executives – who have access to a company’s most sensitive information, are now the major focus for social engineering attacks, alerts the Verizon 2019 Data Breach …

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3 months, 1900 reported breaches, 1.9 billion records exposed

There were 1,903 publicly disclosed data compromise events in the first three months of the year, exposing over 1.9 billion records, according to Risk Based Security. No other …

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The IoT threat landscape is expanding rapidly, yet few companies are addressing third party risk factors

There is a dramatic increase in IoT-related data breaches specifically due to an unsecured IoT device or application since 2017 – from 15 percent to 26 percent – and the …

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Government embracing digital transformation but struggling to implement data security

The push towards digital transformation in the U.S. government is putting sensitive data at risk, according to a Thales research conducted by analyst firm IDC. The 2019 Thales …

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60% of businesses have experienced a serious security breach in the last two years

There is an increase in security breaches and businesses still face challenges surrounding cyberattacks due to lack of IT security and operations basics. With digital …

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Cybercriminals continue to target intellectual property, putting brand reputation at risk

Despite improvements in combating cybercrime and threats, IT security professionals are still struggling to fully secure their organization and protect against breaches with …

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Companies face regulatory fines and cybersecurity threats, still fail to protect sensitive data

22% of a company’s folders are accessible, on average, to every employee, according to the new report from the Varonis Data Lab, which analyzed more than 54 billion files. The …

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Attackers breached Docker Hub, grabbed keys and tokens

Docker, the company behing the popular virtualization tool bearing the same name, has announced late on Friday that it has suffered a security breach. There was no official …

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